[Resolved] Featured Images from Old Posts are Broken

[Viraj]

Hello Team,

Featured images from old posts are not showing up. When I checked the image source code for broken images, I noticed that it added dimension at the end of the URL. If I remove those dimensions, images load perfectly.

For example – src=”https://www.siteurl.com/wp-content/uploads/XXXX/XX/imagename-400×250.jpg”

If I take out the “-400×250” part, it works perfectly. Also, the URL structures for old and new featured images are different. Kindly guide.

[David]

Hi there,

In Customizer > Layout > Blog –> Featured Images >>> Archives. What Attachment size do you have selected ?

[Viraj]

Hi David,

The settings are as shown in the image – https://ibb.co/Fg16LvN

[David]

Ok – so it looks like you’re older posts don’t have various src-set thumbnails.
Try the Regenerating them with this plugin:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/

[Viraj]

Hi David,

Tried regenerating thumbnails, but the URL structure didn’t change. Is there any other solution?

[David]

Hmmm… what i don’t understand is where is the 400×250 values coming from ? Did you have any custom thumbnail sizes ?

[Viraj]

I don’t recall having any custom sizes for thumbnails. However, we had installed Smush wordpress plugin a long back but I am not sure if it altered anything.

[David]

When you ran the regenerate thumbnails plugin – did it report how may images it updated?

[Viraj]

Yes, it regenerated all 628 thumbnails – https://ibb.co/BzRMLYn

[David]

Hmmm…. in Customizer > Layout > Blog, can you temporarily change the Media Attachment size to Full, and remove the width and height attributes. Then check the img src.

[Viraj]

Dang! That did the trick. I have now resized all the thumbnails using regenerate thumbnails plugin to the size I want.

Thank you so much David! You have been of great help 😊

[David]

Awesome – glad to hear that!

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